Impact-illuminating bullet.



T. c. JOHNS ON.

IMPACT ILLUMINAT ING BULLET.

APPLICATION FILED 0014, 191a;

- Patgnted Feb. 24, 1914,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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IMPACT-ILLUMINATING BULLET.

Specification 01' Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

application filed October 4, lfllji. Serial No. 793,324. I

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, THOMAS C. JoHNsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the. county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Impact- Illuminating Bullets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, 1n 7 Figure 1, a view partly in side elevation and partly in longitudinal section of one form which an impact-illuminating bullet constructed in accordance with my invention may assume. Fig. 2, a plan view thereof. Figs. 3 and 4, corresponding views of a modified form of my improved impactilluminating bullet. Figs. 5 and 6, corresponding views of another modified form of my improved impactilluminating bullet. Figs. 7 and 8, corresponding views of another modified form of my improved impact-illuminating bullet. Figs. 9 and 10, corresponding views of still another modified form of my improved impact-illuminating bullet.

My invention relates to an improvement in impact-illuminating bullets used for illuminating the area immediately surrounding'the point of impact of a bullet for the information of the user of the gun from which the bullet is fired, the object being to produce at a low cost for manufacture, a superior bullet of the character described, in which the application of the flash-light composition to the bullet is practically superficial, whereby the full illuminating effect of the burning of the composition is made available.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in an impact-illuminating bullet having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, I locate seven flat pellets 2 of percussion-igniting flash-light composition in a circular group of as many shallow circular pockets or indentations 3 in the rounded nose of the bullet 4, the group of pockets being, as a group, concentric with preference I shall use a composition which burns freely withv-the production of a minimum amount of smoke.

In the modified form of bullet shown by Figs. 3 and 4:, the seven pellets 5 of flashlight composition are located in a circular group of shallow pockets 6 formed in the nose of the bullet, and as a group concentric therewith, the said pellets 5 having conical lower faces to fit the conical bottoms of the pockets 6.

In the modified form of bullet shown by Figs. 5 and 6, the charge 7 of flash-light composition has the form of a Greek cross set flush into a shallow indentation 8 of corresponding form.

In the form of bullet shown in Figs. 7

and 8 of the drawings, the charge of flashlight composition takes the form. of "thin rings 9 and 10, set into corresponding shallow, annular grooves 11 and 12, concentrically indented in the nose of the bullet.

In the modified form of bullet shown by Figs. 9 and 10, the charge of flash-light composition consists in a pellet 13 having rounded faces and set into a shallow concentric recess 14: in the nose of the bullet to the exterior contour of which the exterior surface of the said pellet conforms.

The foregoing illustrations will serve to illustrate my present invention which 0011- sists in superficially applying a single or divided charge of flash-light compositionin a,

symmetrical way to the nose of a bullet which, instead of being left perfectly smooth, is indented in one form or another to provide an anchorage, as it were, for the retention and protection of the composition which is thus located in an exposed position so that its full illuminating effect is secured. In practising my invention, the composition in a plastic state would probably be wiped into the shallow retaining cavities in the exterior surface of the nose of the bullet.

I claim As a new article of manufacture, an impact-illuminating metal bullet for use in pleasure-shooting, having its nose formed with a relatively shallow indentation or cavity, and having the said indentation or cavity charged with a percussion-igniting flashlight composition igniting upon the impact In testimony whereof, I have signed this of the bullet with the production of a brilli'ant, momentary illuminati0n,whereby and on account of the shallow character of the 5 indentation or cavity for the reception of the composition, the maximum illuminating effect thereof is obtained.

specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS C; JOHNSON. Witnesses:

FRANK A. PAUL, HARRY L. Cnooxn'rr. 

